https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem#Super_wicked_problems
Kelly Levin, Benjamin Cashore, Graeme Auld and Steven Bernstein introduced the
distinction between "wicked problems" and "super wicked problems" in a 2007
conference paper, which was followed by a 2012 journal article in Policy
Sciences. In their discussion of global climate change, they define super
wicked problems as having the following additional characteristics:
Time is running out.
No central authority.
Those seeking to solve the problem are also causing it.
Policies discount the future irrationally.
While the items that define a wicked problem relate to the problem itself, the
items that define a super wicked problem relate to the agent trying to solve
it. Global warming is a super wicked problem, and the need to intervene to tend
to our longer term interests has also been taken up by others, including
Richard Lazarus.